The Weekly Digest is Sampsonia Way’s round-up of the week’s top stories. Sign up to get it delivered every weekend to your inbox.
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For this video, Burmese exiled writer Khet Mar posed two questions to school children living in Rangoon: “Why is it important to say what you want to say?” and “If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?”
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The Weekly Digest is Sampsonia Way’s round-up of the week’s top stories. Sign up to get it delivered every weekend to your inbox.
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Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque has faced death threats in the past, but never from within the Colombian intelligence. She is still waiting to hear back from President Juan Manuel Santos about her request for an investigation.
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Tsering Woeser comments on the popular but distorted perception of Tibet as a place of mystery and mysticism, a distortion, that according to Woeser, is not only made accidentally by popular culture but even deliberately through Chinese scholarship – compounded with the explicit political propaganda.
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The following selection of Sampsonia Way author interviews published in 2011 feature diverse voices from around the world sharing their views on the creative process, politics and culture, and their own struggle to defend freedom of expression.
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Political prisoners of Cuba’s Black Spring have been freed, but for some life in exile has hardly improved since being released from prison. Most of the activists were forced to accept exile as a condition of their release.
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